“Spittle is the very symbol of the formless [informe], of the unverifiable, of the non-symbol of the non-hierarchized”

— Michel Leiris, translated by Dominic Faccini

Can’t thank guest editor M. Forajter enough for publishing two of my poems (“To Lift” and “Night Shift“) in this sprawling and unspeakably sublime “Art & Annihilation” issue of Burning House Press Online. So many kindred spirits are here, too!

I’m also grateful that Burning House Press remains a stronghold for fearless and defiant writers during what feels like increasingly conservative times. Lately, too much of the surrounding litscape feels like a bunch of journals that are in the business of publishing excruciatingly personal third-person bios, not poems.

I’m so glad this house continues to burn!